Pieces from Places

Unaccompanied SATB. Started during Storm Darragh in 2024. Completed 2026.

Commissioned by the Harry Woolhouse Charitable Trust to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Imperial College Sinfonietta. Inspired by one of Europe’s major raised bogs, Carrownagappul, Co. Galway.

Finzi Scholarship piece inspired by Mountain Hares in the Cairngorms. Classical orchestra version (2,2,2,2; 4,2,0,0; timp; strings) and potential chamber version (violin, cello, piano, clarinet). Bill also wrote a travel essay.

For baroque ensemble. Collaborative response to glaciers, commissioned by The Little Baroque Company. In 2016 Bill and the poet Helen Mort climbed in East Greenland.

Part of the project, ‘The Singing Glacier’. For violin, viola and glockenspiel.

SATB, solo piano, solo sop. Commissioned by King’s School, Worcester. On Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, Bill watched white-necked ravens duetting.